Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 7 months ago
…so I’ve been on a shit load of elevators, and I don’t recall a single one of them having music. For as common a trope as it is, you’d think elevator music would be more common in actual elevators.
It’s not as common as it used to be, but I think the point was kind of that you’re not supposed to notice it?
Look into “muzak” (the style of music. Apparently it’s also a brand according to Google), and some of Brian Eno’s ambient albums like “Music for Airplanes.”
I don’t like to think I’m that old, and I 100% remember elevator music.
I love Eno’s ambient music but it’s really distinct from the cheesy musak you’re referring to.
I may have been thinking of “musique concrete” rather than muzak
I’ve been in a few that played music (or more recently, ads) in them. But, yeah, it’s like quicksand in that I was led to believe it would be pretty uniquitous.
or more recently, ads
Try this one trick ti get me to take the stairs every single time.
Yeah they always go with awkward silence
The quiet fart is king.
I don’t think I can actually recall one either.
Maybe in a department store or mall in the 80s. It was just so deliberately bland I never noticed when it became less common.
Some hotel elevators have it.
But yeah, I don’t recall the last time I heard music in a residential elevator.
I worked in an office that installed music in the bathrooms. It wasn’t there for a long time, and then they added it. An email went out at one point instructing people to stop turning off the music (someone figured out where the Sonos controls were I guess). Someone decided it was IMPERATIVE to have something to listen to other than the coworker grunting next to you.
GrapesOfAss@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s like porn, they all used to have music, and now people still make jokes about how bad it was but it’s just gone now
Kase@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Elevators used to have porn? :o /s
misophist@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, but it was bad, so now they don’t. Keep up!
Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Up and down that shit all day long pal.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Fuck, I’m old. :(
jasondj@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
Brown chicken brown cow.